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    V.G. Narayanan

    Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
    • 24 Feb 2022
    • Op-Ed

    Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

    accounting firms. Auditor opinions that are “qualified” or “adverse” can materially injure an organization’s credit worthiness and credibility, thus increasing its cost of capital. Accessibility. The SEC’s... View Details
    Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health
    • 06 Mar 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52341 February 20, 2018 JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association Administrative Costs Associated with Physician Billing and Insurance-Related Activities at an Academic Health... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

    link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54665 forthcoming R&D Management An Exploratory Study of Product Development in Emerging Economies: Evidence from Medical Device Testing in India By: Gupta, Budhaditya, View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2014
    • Book

    Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

    By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini
    In this book we describe the transformation of state capitalism from a model in which governments owned and ran corporations and broadly controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a... View Details
    Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Industrial Policy; Development Banks; Capitalism; Financial Markets; Corporate Governance Theory; CEO Effects; Public Sector; Economic Systems; Financial Institutions; Corporate Governance; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; State Ownership; Privatization; Public Ownership; Emerging Markets; Banking Industry; Mining Industry; Energy Industry
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    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change

    By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter explores when and why private regulatory governance systems became the primary form of global environmental governance. The chapter explores two different historical paths in such private regulation and how they came about. The first path involved... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Entrepreneurship; Environment; Climate Change; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Regulation; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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    • 07 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

    corporate America ever win back people's confidence? Harvard Management Update recently discussed this issue with Thomas R. Piper, Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School View Details
    Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    CEO and CFO Career Penalties to Missing Quarterly Analysts Forecasts

    By: Rick Mergenthaler, Shiva Rajgopal and Suraj Srinivasan
    We find that missing the quarterly analyst consensus earnings forecast is associated with career penalties in the form of a reduced bonus, smaller equity grants, and a greater chance of forced dismissal for both CEOs and CFOs during the period 1993-2004. These results... View Details
    Keywords: Earnings Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Managerial Roles; Personal Development and Career
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    • 12 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

    https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers By:... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • July 2013
    • Case

    Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain

    By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai

    As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details

    Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
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      Jonas Heese

      Jonas Heese is a Professor of Business Administration in the Accounting & Management (A&M) Unit at Harvard Business School.He serves as a course head of Financial Reporting and Control in the MBA core curriculum and teaches The Anatomy of... View Details

      • 28 Nov 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

      account individual circumstances. From the 1980s Unilever also honed skills in divesting businesses. Unilever's ability to identify acquisition targets, and to absorb the capabilities of acquired companies,... View Details
      Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
      • April 1964 (Revised September 1982)
      • Case

      Empire Glass Co. (B)

      Details the behavior of line managers, management staff, and workers in response to long-established control system developed by corporation headquarters. View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Management Systems; Employees; Manufacturing Industry
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      • January 1991 (Revised March 1992)
      • Case

      USA Today

      By: Robert L. Simons
      USA Today is a national newspaper struggling to achieve profitability. This case focuses on the use of management control systems to identify emerging opportunities and the formulation of new strategies. The interactive system used by top managers--the Friday... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Managerial Roles; Forecasting and Prediction; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Labor and Management Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Journalism and News Industry; United States
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      • 25 Sep 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

      allowed investors both deal-by-deal selectivity and managed accounts of Cadre properties, at fee levels substantially lower than those charged by PE funds. Purchase this... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 1998
      • Working Paper

      CEO Incentives and Firm Size

      By: Brian Hall and George P. Baker
      What determines CEO incentives? A confusion exists among both academics and practitioners about how to measure the strength of CEO incentives, and how to reconcile the enormous differences in pay sensitivities between executives in large and small firms. We show that... View Details
      Keywords: Business Ventures; Motivation and Incentives; Executive Compensation; Size; Management Systems
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        James I. Cash

        Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
        • August 1994
        • Case

        Komatsu Ltd. (B): Profit Planning and Product Costing

        Describes Komatsu's profit planning and product costing systems. Komatsu can boast a high degree of employee dedication to achieving its profit plan. Also explores the logic behind the design of a new cost system at Komatsu that is less accurate at the product level... View Details
        Keywords: Cost Accounting; Cost Management; Profit
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          Dennis Campbell

          Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; service industry; hotels ＆ motels; consumer products; restaurant; manufacturing; professional services
          • 02 Apr 2019
          • First Look

          New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

          forthcoming Review of Accounting Studies The Effect of Enforcement Transparency: Evidence from SEC Comment-Letter Reviews By: Duro, Miguel, Jonas Heese, and Gaizka Ormazabal Abstract—This paper studies the... View Details
          Keywords: Dina Gerdeman